julian Assange

The New Statesman offers some differing views on Julian Assange, now holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London. John Pilger says the pursuit of Assange is an assault on freedom; Luke Harding says that Assange and Wikileaks are two separate issues.
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You don’t have to like Julian Assange, says Jack Shafer in Slate, to understand the value of and even approve of what he is doing. Assange’s most important contribution, Shafer says, is that he is restoring needed skepticism about institutions that require a monitoring eye.
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The most recent release from Wikileaks, comprised of hundreds of U.S. State Department cables, is unlikely to facilitate the transparency Wikileaks founder Julian Assange purports to advocate, says Christopher Dickey in Newsweek. Instead, Dickey says, the result will be stifled communication.
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